I am an artist at living - my work of art is my life.
Unless we die to ourselves, we can never be alive again.
Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities.
The waters are in motion, but the moon retains its serenity.
Zen Makes use, to a great extent, of poetical expressions; Zen is wedded to poetry.
Zen, in its essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's own being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom. By making us drink right from the fountain of life it liberates us from all the yokes under which we finite beings are usually suffering in this world.